Word: montes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under Jefferson Island, La., sending much of a 1.5-sq.-mi. lake gurgling down into the dome. The most frightening accidents have involved still another use of salt domes: as cheap, convenient storage tanks for crude-oil and natural-gas products. Last fall hundreds of people had to flee Mont Belvieu, Texas (pop. 2,700), which sits atop the largest such hydrocarbon reserve in the U.S., after gases began leaking from...
...temporarily-and perhaps dangerously -stored in huge steel-and-concrete tanks. No decision has yet been made on any of the various types of geological storage dumps under study. Carter explains that unlike the oil or gases kept in the ground under pressure at places like Mont Belvieu, solid nuclear wastes could not trickle through the salt. In fact, he and his colleagues already have some preliminary ideas about how the debris should be buried. Vertical shafts, he explains, would be sunk in solid salt to a depth of about 2,000 ft. Horizontal tunnels would fan out from...
...Grande Odalisque, the body blandly composed, smooth, supernaturally white. But the feet are unclassically dirty from padding around a grimy atelier. The model's face, half turned toward the camera, wears an unsettling tigerish expression. In another picture, black-clad climbers struggle up the snowy folds of Mont Blanc looking like a necklace of chocolate chips dropped into a vanilla sundae. Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both eye and ear. The cameramen-interviewers are Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who worked under...
...familiar and often contemporary ways. They include the equivalents of snapshots and salon portraits, multiple exposures to analyze the flight of pigeons and the strides of men, romanticized landscapes and still lifes clearly derived from painting, as well as reportage on everything from war to travel and exploration, from Mont Blanc to the Crimea to the Nile. A photographic task force was even commissioned by the French government to rove the country photographing historic monuments (rather like Roy Stryker's famous teams in the U.S. during the 1930s Depression). One of the finest results is a highly abstract portrait...
...leadership of Abraham Lincoln. A hundred years later, it continued that process led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For generations, white Americans had countenanced prejudice and discrimination and Black Americans, intimidated by violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when he had the tactical sense and the courage to face the firehoses and dogs in Birmingham and Albany and Selma and across the South were the mass of Americans moved enough to take concrete action...